Holiday booked now pregnant!

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Hi all just wanted a bit of advice please.

Last week (Monday 26th Nov) myself and other half booked a holiday with first choice for 10 nights all inclusive to turkey with first choice, due to travel end of June 2019 I have now fell pregnant approx 5 weeks, my EDD would be approx start of August meaning I’d be in last few weeks of pregnancy and very unlikely to be allowed to travel.

I am wondering whether I can cancel this now and get a refund? Or is best to wait? As the holiday cost almost £2000 I am very keen to get as much money back as we can due to the unexpected news (which we are happy about!) as we could really do with that money back!

I have tried to read t&c’s but says will be charged deposit as cancelling over 70 days before travel, however we haven’t paid a deposit as such and paid the balance in full. I am wondering whether can claim through travel insurance ?

Thanks in advance

Although you've paid in full, I would've thought part of it is considered the deposit, so you should lose that and get the rest back? If you got your insurance when you booked, I think you would be covered if the doctor says you can't travel at that time, but not if you cancelled because you didn't feel up for it or whatever. I don't have any personal experience but this is what I gathered when I booked my holiday while ttc last year.

I was similar but it was with Thomas Cook. I lost my deposit but got the other money I had already paid back. I think I lost about £400, might have been a little less. I went on Live Chat to see what they would say. I would of been 29 weeks, midwife advised best to cancel. Good job I did as I had HG throughout.
Congratulations!

If you where actively trying travel insurance won’t cover you if it was unexpected or you had a medical risk with the pregnancy that means you can’t travel then they will

I'd contact them and see. I booked a holiday then fell pregnant. I'd not booked via a tour op though. I changed the dates of the holiday, brought them forward about 6 weeks. Flights and hotels were fine to change, just paid admin fees, so maybe £200 in total, but way less than losing the whole lot. Travel insurance would not cover.

Could you bring the holiday forward by a few weeks? Just wondering if that might be the best of both worlds?

I had this as a holiday was booked for Dominican Republic but because the Zika Virus was quite bad in that country, Thompson asked for proof of pregnancy and just changed the date and location of our holiday for us. Not sure if Turkey has Zika but may be worth looking into...

Insurance won’t cober you but you might be able to move the date?